After losing to Belarus' Aryna Sabalenka in the quarterfinals at Roland Garros, Elena Svitolina refused to shake hands amid the war in Ukraine. The Ukrainian is accused of having been a supporter of the President of Belarusian Lukashenko, himself a supporters of Vladimir Putin.
Belarus had supported its President Lukashenka, who has declared war on Ukraine for more than a year now. But ArynaSabalenKA defended herself at a press conference. "I don't want sport to be mixed up in politics because I'm just a 25-year-old tennis player."